What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind’s breath?
HOMERDreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind.
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Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
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No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man’s hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.
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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
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Even a fool learns something once it hits him.
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You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
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Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
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Death submits to no one.
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He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
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Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard.
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
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Everything flows and nothing stays.
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Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.
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